Derek Winnert

The Betsy * (1978, Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones) – Classic Movie Review 9917

Heavens to betsy, it’s esteemed septuagenarian peer Lord Olivier starring in director Daniel Petrie’s 1977 farrago film The Betsy, a tacky movie adaptation of Harold Robbins’s best-selling 1971 novel, as Loren Hardeman Snr, aka Number […]

Jun, 16 · in Reviews

Betsy’s Wedding **** (1990, Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 9916

The sweet 1990 comedy Betsy’s Wedding is a tour-de-force for Alan Alda. Alda writes, directs and stars in this warm and funny comedy about a man who will do anything to give his kooky daughter […]

Jun, 15 · in Reviews

Le Million ***** (1931, Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert) – Classic Movie Review 9915

René Lefèvre stars as Michel, an impoverished Parisian artist who turns Paris upside-down in a desperate search for his winning million florins Dutch lottery ticket, left in the pocket of his old jacket, given away […]

Jun, 15

Meet Danny Wilson *** (1952, Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 9914

Director Joseph Pevney’s 1952 film Meet Danny Wilson stars Frank Sinatra as Danny Wilson, a singer (what else!) who rises to the top of his profession, but gets mixed with racketeering hoods and is threatened […]

Jun, 15

The Best Things in Life Are Free *** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9913

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths […]

Jun, 15

Medea *** (1969, Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile) – Classic Movie Review 9,912

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1969 Italian film Medea emphasises the operatic nature of this tale, presumably the point of casting the iconic Maria Callas, and he uses her great, tragic face to huge effect. The beloved […]

Jun, 15

Marie [Marie: A True Story] ** (1985, Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka) – Classic Movie Review 9911

Director Roger Donaldson’s 1985 film Marie [Marie: A True Story] is a good-hearted, conscientious, but insufficiently rousing biopic plus political drama, with Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, a 1958 Nashville battered wife who rises in […]

Jun, 14

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